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Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: teepee2] #6147836 02/04/18 04:39 PM 02/04/18 04:39 PM
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 9,057 Henderson, N.Y. Jefferson Co. W walleyed trapper
walleyed trapper W Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 9,057 Henderson, N.Y. Jefferson Co.	Originally Posted By: teepee2 Their coon. Whose Coon ? "Said The Guy From Iowa" And Being From A Mega-Coon State, He Would Know !!! BTW, It Would Be "They're Coon", NOT "Their Coon"!!! w Last edited by walleyed; 02/04/18 04:47 PM. "Provisional/Interim" member of NYSTA "I Support Non-Resident Trapping"

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: Nessmuck] #6147838 02/04/18 04:42 PM 02/04/18 04:42 PM
Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 9,116 Central MN, sort of old MnMan trapper
MnMan trapper Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 9,116 Central MN, sort of old	Originally Posted By: Nessmuck Those are the tracks I follow to my leaning pole sets in the snow...year after year.... Do you have a lot of coon where you trap? I'm just happy to be here! Today I'm as young as I'll ever be and and older than I've ever been before!

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: MnMan] #6147844 02/04/18 04:50 PM 02/04/18 04:50 PM
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 25,236 New Hampshire N Nessmuck trapper
Nessmuck trapper N Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 25,236 New Hampshire	Originally Posted By: MnMan Originally Posted By: Nessmuck Those are the tracks I follow to my leaning pole sets in the snow...year after year.... Do you have a lot of coon where you trap? They are denned up...but on the Mild days in Dec,during our season...I have caught a few in a leaning pole set. But a coons front paw print is NO where as large as a fisher...at least around here. It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: ] #6147845 02/04/18 04:51 PM 02/04/18 04:51 PM
Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 113 Northern Minnesota K kabguy trapper
kabguy trapper K Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 113 Northern Minnesota	We have a lot of fisher here and observe their tracks in all types of conditions. When I zoom in on a couple of the clearer prints you see individual straight toes that appear like coon. As said, fisher tracks observed on hard surfaces look like big mink tracks. I don't believe these are fisher.

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: MnMan] #6147847 02/04/18 04:53 PM 02/04/18 04:53 PM
Joined: Jul 2017 Posts: 1,860 IA T teepee2 trapper
teepee2 trapper T Joined: Jul 2017 Posts: 1,860 IA	Then again I have never seen a fisher track, but i have seen a lot of coon tracks. The two tracks side by side slightly off set are a front foot and a back foot. I'll have to look at a video to see how they accomplish that. The length of the toes on both the front and back in the last picture is a give away. Last edited by teepee2; 02/04/18 04:57 PM.

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: MnMan] #6147849 02/04/18 04:54 PM 02/04/18 04:54 PM
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 25,236 New Hampshire N Nessmuck trapper
Nessmuck trapper N Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 25,236 New Hampshire	Originally Posted By: MnMan Originally Posted By: Nessmuck Those are the tracks I follow to my leaning pole sets in the snow...year after year.... Do you have a lot of coon where you trap? Do you have a season and limits for fisher ? They have been adjusting ours..But still only the Month of Dec..still only 31 days... to get 5...use to be able to harvest more....... It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: ] #6147853 02/04/18 05:01 PM 02/04/18 05:01 PM
Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 9,116 Central MN, sort of old MnMan trapper
MnMan trapper Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 9,116 Central MN, sort of old	We used to be able to get 5 but it has been reduced the last few years to two but now it's a real short season which makes it more difficult. I'm just happy to be here! Today I'm as young as I'll ever be and and older than I've ever been before!

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: kabguy] #6147854 02/04/18 05:01 PM 02/04/18 05:01 PM
Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 9,634 Northern MN O Osky trapper
Osky trapper O Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 9,634 Northern MN	Originally Posted By: kabguy We have a lot of fisher here and observe their tracks in all types of conditions. When I zoom in on a couple of the clearer prints you see individual straight toes that appear like coon. As said, fisher tracks observed on hard surfaces look like big mink tracks. I don't believe these are fisher. Agreed Osky www.SureDockusa.com “ I said I don’t have much use for traps these days, never said I didn’t know how to use them.”

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: walleyed] #6147857 02/04/18 05:06 PM 02/04/18 05:06 PM
Joined: Jul 2017 Posts: 1,860 IA T teepee2 trapper
teepee2 trapper T Joined: Jul 2017 Posts: 1,860 IA	Originally Posted By: walleyed Originally Posted By: teepee2 Their coon. Whose Coon ? "Said The Guy From Iowa" And Being From A Mega-Coon State, He Would Know !!! BTW, It Would Be "They're Coon", NOT "Their Coon"!!! w I went back and fixed it for you. I don't have to stay after school and write it a hundred times do I teach. I hope not I have coons to scrape Last edited by teepee2; 02/04/18 05:07 PM.

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: ] #6147863 02/04/18 05:10 PM 02/04/18 05:10 PM
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,459 Montana Taximan trapper
Taximan trapper Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,459 Montana	Those are coon.

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: nyrat] #6147866 02/04/18 05:12 PM 02/04/18 05:12 PM
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 9,057 Henderson, N.Y. Jefferson Co. W walleyed trapper
walleyed trapper W Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 9,057 Henderson, N.Y. Jefferson Co.	Originally Posted By: nyrat fisher for sure tail drag Tail Drag ? What Are You Smokin' Today, NYRAT ? w "Provisional/Interim" member of NYSTA "I Support Non-Resident Trapping"

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: trapper les] #6147890 02/04/18 05:30 PM 02/04/18 05:30 PM
Joined: Jul 2017 Posts: 1,860 IA T teepee2 trapper
teepee2 trapper T Joined: Jul 2017 Posts: 1,860 IA	I just looked at a video of a coon walking. Both feet on the same side are off the ground at the same time the front foot comes down just ahead of the back foot. It's amazing what you can learn when you are on this site. I'm scraping about 500 of them this year and didn't know how they walked. Last edited by teepee2; 02/04/18 05:32 PM.

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: ] #6147913 02/04/18 05:53 PM 02/04/18 05:53 PM
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 7,676 Wisconsin M Moosetrot trapper
Moosetrot trapper M Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 7,676 Wisconsin	I think those tracks are from Scuba's pelican, Pete. Moosetrot

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: ] #6147945 02/04/18 06:22 PM 02/04/18 06:22 PM
Joined: Jan 2016 Posts: 422 New Hampshire T Terrence j trapper
Terrence j trapper T Joined: Jan 2016 Posts: 422 New Hampshire	Nessy what part of the state you in? I'm in Merrimack county and have trapped for 3 years and hunted for many more, and only ever found one set of Fisher tracks. I'm trying but I just can't find one. Lol

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: ] #6147983 02/04/18 07:01 PM 02/04/18 07:01 PM
Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 2,533 Fingerlakes New York robert.d12 trapper
robert.d12 trapper Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 2,533 Fingerlakes New York	mink The beauty of the second amendment is it wont be needed until they try to take it. -Thomas Jefferson

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: ] #6147987 02/04/18 07:03 PM 02/04/18 07:03 PM
Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 4,133 WI N nimzy trapper
nimzy trapper N Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 4,133 WI	Coon without doubt. Only bout 3 fellas seen Coon tracks in the snow?

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: ] #6147995 02/04/18 07:10 PM 02/04/18 07:10 PM
Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 6,667 Wi. D Diggerman trapper
Diggerman trapper D Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 6,667 Wi.	Not to be disrespectful of anyone on here, but from what I can see in those pic's, NO, they are not Fisher tracks. The front foot pad looks as coony as any I have seen. (disclosure, I am not a professional tracker)

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: Taximan] #6148020 02/04/18 07:29 PM 02/04/18 07:29 PM
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 9,057 Henderson, N.Y. Jefferson Co. W walleyed trapper
walleyed trapper W Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 9,057 Henderson, N.Y. Jefferson Co.	Originally Posted By: Taximan Those are coon. That Texas Rebel Savell Would Say "Them Is Coon" !! w "Provisional/Interim" member of NYSTA "I Support Non-Resident Trapping"

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: ] #6148029 02/04/18 07:36 PM 02/04/18 07:36 PM
R Rubee OP Unregistered
Rubee OP Unregistered R	Any marten in your area?

Re: Are these fisher tracks??? [Re: ] #6148068 02/04/18 08:10 PM 02/04/18 08:10 PM
K krispcritter OP Unregistered
krispcritter OP Unregistered K	Originally Posted By: Rubee Any marten in your area? Not that I know of, and the guys that taught our trapping class said, no martin in these parts but a few fisher. I'm gonna tack some venison in some hardware cloth to a tree with a trail cam and see if I can get a pic or two. Not very confident on getting a picture as this is the first time in 15 years of being in these woods to have seen these tracks. If I get a picture I will post but like I said not very confident I will see again. Thanks to all.

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